Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:06 pm  

I don't think Korkidas, Chan or Newton count on the overseas quota mate.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:07 pm  

As people have said, cracking question.

The 14 in the current squad I've decided to keep are;

Patten Q
Nero NQ
Broughton
Ratchford
Holdsworth Q
Godwin
Cashmere Q
Smith
Wild
Adamson
Boyle
Sidlow
Gleeson
Neal

adding to that squad I have;

Watkins (Leeds)
Briscoe (Hull FC)
Widdop (Melbourne Storm)
Morley (Warrington)
Roby (St Helens)
Lynch (Bradford)
Burgess (South Sydney Rabbitohs)
Ellis (Wests Tigers)
George (Wakefield)
Clinton (Hull KR)
Ferguson (Huddersfield)
Chan NQ (Crusaders)
Lewis Q (Penrith Panthers)

Making my squad (Quota players in red)

1) Patten
2) Broughton
3) Ratchford
4) Watkins
5) Briscoe
6) Widdop
7) Holdsworth
Morley
9) Roby
10) Lynch
11) Burgess
12) Ellis
13) Lewis
14) Godwin
15) Boyle
16) Cashmere
17) Ferguson
18) Smith
19) Wild
20) Chan
21) Nero
22) Adamson
23) Neal
24) Clinton
25) Sidlow
26) Gleeson
27) George

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:37 pm  

Players I'd keep would be from our squad now would be

Patten, broughton, Gibson, clay, rathcford, smith, holdsworth, Godwin, Owen, cashmere, boyle, adamson, wild, sidlow.

I would bring in

Roby, westwood, crabtree, chase, blanch, welham, yeaman, peacock, lynch, s. Burgess, g. Ellis, s. Tomkins, clubb

My 17 would be

Patten, broughton, yeaman, welham, blanch, chase, holdsworth, crabtree, roby, peacock, burgess, Westwood, ellis.

Subs. S. Tomkins, cashmere, lynch, wild.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:32 pm  

Not doing the whole thing but you'd have to pick Matt Scott, not seen a prop as good as that for many a year and you worry what we will do to Enlgand and Wales this Autumn.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:48 pm  

With my winnings, I'd create a big genetic engineering lab and then clone Paul Gallen. My team would then consist of 17 Paul Gallens who would all be considered as home grown players as he will have been grown in a growbag in a lab in Ordsal. We would then batter (literally) everyone in Super League.

Simples.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:43 pm  

A we still keeping Simms,as manager.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:20 pm  

lancetodd wrote:

A we still keeping Simms,as manager.

Knock it off will you, you're getting very boring banging on about Simms all the time, this was / is an excellent thread so why you feel you need to ruin it I don't know.

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 8:58 pm  

N.K.O.T.T wrote:

With my winnings, I'd create a big genetic engineering lab and then clone Paul Gallen. My team would then consist of 17 Paul Gallens who would all be considered as home grown players as he will have been grown in a growbag in a lab in Ordsal. We would then batter (literally) everyone in Super League.

Simples.

Slightly O/T but on a similar vein, I'll never forget a few years ago when the Broncos were playing over here in the world club challange and the night after they won they all turned ip in the Gilbery prompting the women in there to go into a frenzy with them.
Remember hoping at the time that they all get dragged back to the Marriott and in a few years time we've got a load of kids of questionable parentage growing up in Salford with amazing rugby playing ability. A few years to go yet but I have my fingers crossed

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:22 pm  

I did the whole, 14 in and 14 out thing, but then Aussie Wifi went down and I lost it all. As I can't be bothered doing it all again, I'll just supplement our current 17 with some of my favourite players.

The Hayne Train - replacing Patten due to being more explosive
Broughton - show me a better finisher in SL
Nero - He's played well for us, deserves his place
Shenton - classy player - head and shoulders better than Gibson
Ryan Hall - would have gone for Briscoe, except Briscoe plays on Jodie's wing

Ratchford - His kicking game is wasted at centre
Holdsworth - Class act, stood by us last season

Cashmere - Still not many in SL that I'd swap for big Ray
C. smith - was one of the two best players in SOO 1
Mozza - we'd all still love to see him in a Salford shirt
S. Burgess - Imagine the punch he would add to our defence
S. Wild - has given everything this season
Gallen - along with C. Smith, was one of the two best players in SOO 1

Adam Sidlow - he's shown more ability to run his weight this season, still not enough though.
Lee Mossop - big future ahead of him
Luke Adamson - Never stops trying
Wayne Godwin - Like many people say, best signing we made in the off season

9 remining, 8 new faces

Re: If you won the lottery... a squad challenge. : Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:44 am  

Right, as I don't have Sky Sports & my knowledge of NRL is poop (bar the British players) I'll go for a straight 17 made up of non Salford players whilst trying to stick to the 1 per team ruling.

1. Lockyer 2. Fox 3. Watkins 4. Mellers (purely to catch the bombs!)
5. Briscoe 6. Brough 7. Dureau 8. Mozzer 9. Roby 10. S Burgess
11. Gaz Ellis 12. J Tomkins 13. Morrison

14. Chase 15. Clubb 16. T Burgess 17. Meninga (maybe a liitle old now but can't be any older than Steve Menzies!)